White Bubble Jive
Mar. 28th, 2006 04:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
x_losI love the intro for the old BBC series "The Prisoner." It's so "RESIGNED", slamming around a desk staying stuff, very small car!, man getting away with a top hat in this day and age, beach, gasssssssss, "Who's Number One?" "Dude, totally not gonna tell you." I do miss the old, chubby, brunette Number 2. This one is kind of like a mousy Rex Harrison.
I'm writing a paper for Latham on homosexuality in new wave science fiction. I see it constructed in terms of consequence free behavior rather than orientation. I'm rereading some old Foucalt on the subject, but I have his stuff on prisons rather than his sexuality studies, so it's proving annoying. I'm wondering whether it's a cop out that these novels describe homosexual acts but never a distinct homosexual orientation, or whether it's evidence of a true fluidity of sexuality in which acts are not restricted by a definition of the self as homo or hetero sexual. I'm arguing the former, but I don't know. Leguin's the Left Hand of Darkness is serving as a counter argument, a true case of fuiditiy of sexuality as opposed to a consequence free heteronormativity.
I have a debate tournament to judge (Lincoln-Douglas) this weekend, and Molly's party. After that, I really do have to get home for a weekend. Last year I didn't and my mother refused to hold any kind of belated family birthday. I hope Jenny will be in town. I need to call her.
And No. 6 is No. 2 now. Ooooooh.
edit: First draft of the paper's done. Poetry packet reviewed, sonnet written, med issues reading complete, sci fi short stories read, Bug Jack Barron finished. God, long night. I don't feel like doing my German, I just want to sleep, I feel like I've earned it and German's now the only homework I have for this week. I wish I could drop that. Language and I were never meant to be as one.
I'm writing a paper for Latham on homosexuality in new wave science fiction. I see it constructed in terms of consequence free behavior rather than orientation. I'm rereading some old Foucalt on the subject, but I have his stuff on prisons rather than his sexuality studies, so it's proving annoying. I'm wondering whether it's a cop out that these novels describe homosexual acts but never a distinct homosexual orientation, or whether it's evidence of a true fluidity of sexuality in which acts are not restricted by a definition of the self as homo or hetero sexual. I'm arguing the former, but I don't know. Leguin's the Left Hand of Darkness is serving as a counter argument, a true case of fuiditiy of sexuality as opposed to a consequence free heteronormativity.
I have a debate tournament to judge (Lincoln-Douglas) this weekend, and Molly's party. After that, I really do have to get home for a weekend. Last year I didn't and my mother refused to hold any kind of belated family birthday. I hope Jenny will be in town. I need to call her.
And No. 6 is No. 2 now. Ooooooh.
edit: First draft of the paper's done. Poetry packet reviewed, sonnet written, med issues reading complete, sci fi short stories read, Bug Jack Barron finished. God, long night. I don't feel like doing my German, I just want to sleep, I feel like I've earned it and German's now the only homework I have for this week. I wish I could drop that. Language and I were never meant to be as one.
